©Courtesy of Sony Pictures It wasn’t just the Bossa Nova that came from Brazil. Horror fans know Coffin Joe terrorized the streets of Sao Paulo, while the Creature from the Black Lagoon and the massive snake from the original 1997 Anaconda hailed from deep within the Brazilian Amazon. Film geeks like Doug McCallister and his…
©Courtesy of Netflix These two Shinyas are like the Oscar Madison and Felix Unger of Japanese ballroom dancing. Shinya Suzuki is a messy, hard-partying ladies’ man, who has won a string of Latin dancing championships. Shinya Sugiki is a fastidious, uptight specialist in traditional ballroom dances, who always seems to come in second at international…
©Courtesy of Well go USA Entertainment Thanks to their success repelling the Mongol invasions of 1274 and 1281, China’s Ming Dynasty decided against any further military aggression directed towards Japan throughout its reign. Samurai like Riku were one of the major factors contributing to Japan’s victories. Frankly, Riku assumes his fighting days have finished when…
©Courtesy of Universal Pictures Las Vegas needs a real-life Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria, but not the smaller franchise store from the first film. Fans deserve a full recreation of the bigger flagship restaurant, complete with the river ride, as revealed in the new sequel—like only Vegas could build. Mike Schmidt’s encounters in the smaller Freddy Fazbear’s…
©Courtesy of GKIDS Three of the biggest anime franchises share certain similarities. In Chainsaw Man, they fight devils, while in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba they do indeed slay demons. In the case of Jujutsu Kaisen, human “Jujutsu Sorcerers” battle so-called “Curses,” demonic monsters that coalesce from the excess negative energy humans release into the…
©Courtesy of Sony Pictures Finland’s resiliency is amazing. They flat-out defeated the vastly larger Soviet Red Army in the First Winter War and essentially battled them to a draw in the Second. Aatmi Korpi was their not-so-secret weapon. According to his mythical backstory, after the Communists massacred Korpi’s family, the enraged Finnish commando launched a…
@Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures Phillip Vandarploeug is a husky American expat residing in a Tokyo apartment that qualifies as small, even by local standards. He ekes out a subsistence living working the absolute lowest acting jobs on the dramatic food chain. If anyone understands life’s disappointments, it would be him. Consequently, he quickly displays the…
@Courtesy of Netflix Thanks to the reforms of the Meiji Restoration, being a ronin (a masterless samurai, like Toshiro Mifune in Yojimbo) no longer looked so bad to old school warriors following the Bushido code. Even ronin had a level of status the new government denied the samurai, now called Shizoku. They lost their honor…
@Courtesy of Anniplex USA In the 1970s, they would have called Ubu Kamigori “bionic.” In the year 2099, she can be described as a biological-hybrid android reconstructed with Somadea technology. Regardless of the terminology, Kamigori did not ask for her new “enhanced” condition. Her new boss definitely took some creepy liberties, which is why their…
©Courtesy of GKIDS Honestly, animation was probably the only way to adapt Amélie Nothomb’s otherwise “unadaptable,” “biographical” novella. Describing the world as she supposedly saw it as a three-year-old toddler, her book-club-friendly The Character of Rain reads something like Look Who’s Talking in the style of Terrence Malick. Regardless, the title rugrat character has a…
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